Found in Translation: Achieving Human Parity on Chinese to English News Translation

  • Hany Hassan Awadalla and Christian Federmann | Microsoft

Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years. In this talk we describe recent advances of Microsoft’s machine translation system using Neural Machine Translation that lead to achieving a new state-of-the-art, and achieving human parity when compared to professional human translations. We will discuss the technical contributions, results and how we defined and accurately measured human parity in translation.

Series: Microsoft Research Talks